ZombieRicePuddingLand

[leahbobet]

Back from seeing Zombieland, which was a freaking delight from start to finish. I was expecting a lot more gore and a lot less...I guess, sly wit? And I was pleasantly surprised on both levels.* This was a very round movie. It could be fun and sad and lonely and dorky and smart and silly and funny as hell without being self-conscious about any of that or wrenching your neck on the turns between those things, and that's really cool. I did not look at my watch or remember I was in a movie theatre once.

Also: it is nice to watch a movie/engage with a text/whatever that knows how to just gently brush the big red button of a terrible thing having happened to someone, instead of pressing it and pressing it like it controls the last stoplight before home and you really, really have to pee.

So, recommended. Two severed thumbs up. *g*

After that we went to Fran's for dessert** and I had some rice pudding, and that was also a worthwhile use of my evening.

And now I must go to bed, because I still do have to wake up for something tomorrow. So. Goodnight, internet. Dream of zombies.

*I kinda do badly with gore.

**Like you do.

Comments

[mercwriter.livejournal.com]

*grin* Yup. It was a very fun movie.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I saw it last night, and came out feeling much the same. Except for the rice pudding, which I did not have. (One of the great tragedies of my life: I made the Perfect Rice Pudding [I know this because I tasted it in the kitchen, and never was any rice pudding better in any way], and carried it up the two steps into my then-dining room, and before I could get it to the table it writhed out of my hands and flew over the dining-table - blessedly not encountering any of my guests en route - and splash-landed on the far side, breaking the dish and ruining a lovely pair of purple suede boots [this was in the long-ago, you understand] and rendering itself visibly and entirely unrecoverable, and I've never made rice pudding since.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Aww. The Fran's rice pudding is sort of a thing: they used to be semi-famous for it, and I think it might be the only dish they kept from when it was a diner in the 1940s.

I will say for rice pudding in general that it probably deserves your return to its raisiny shores.

[sierralad.livejournal.com]

The movie theatres should sell Twinkies while Zombieland and its inevitable sequel are on the bill. :D

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...hah! Oh man, they should!